Trusted Voices

  

         

If we grew up in healthy homes, I would think that some of the voices we trusted would be those of parents or grandparents, or those of people who represented stable situations for us. They need not have had great, stentorian tones of oratory, just the sounds of people who brought words of encouragement and care, words of loving comfort in times of pain and sorrow. I think we all grew up needing to feel that there were those on our side, who were in our lives to bring love and light and to be steadfast when things were tenuous.

Can we count on such voices today?... 

Can we count on such voices today? I remember a time when we could believe many of our public speakers, such as the journalist, Walter Cronkite, who was once called “the most trusted man in America.” When information comes faster and with more ferocity than ever, and when some of our leaders speak as obvious liars, it is truly hard on the heart to want, to need to believe.

Our words should be our bonds...

Are there those of us who still bring the love and the will of those old family stalwarts forward into our lives today? Those of us who believe our words should be our bonds, that our voices should bring the truth as we know it into the public square?

Words of rightness, healing and correction... 

I believe so. I think that many of us respect the paths of learning we gained growing up, and that we understand what it means to bring words of rightness, healing and correction into our lives today… and I want to be one of them…


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